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Western News, July 27, 1978, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: First University Attorney Appointed, Board Names New Administrators, Distinguished Alumni Will Be Honored, New Building Projects Approved, Directory Listing Options Explained, Oral Examinations for Doctorates Scheduled, Travel Fund Deadlines Listed

Western News, July 24, 1978, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: General Fund Operating Budget, Comparative Summary of Appropriations, Fiscal Year Totals 1975-76 through 1976-77

Western News, July 20, 1978, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Faculty Senate to Discuss Grading, Trustees meet Friday, Inter-Institutional Study Aids Students, Reopen Search for Graduate College Dean, Fall Homecoming Will Honor Five Classes, University Prepares Saudi Teachers, Western Wins Commendation, "Ham Operators" Coming Here

Western News, July 13, 1978, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Name Four to Athletic Hall of Fame, Seibert to Head Fund Committee, Travelogue Will Premiere Here, 27th Annual Music Camp Opens Sunday, Faculty-Staff Golf Champs Named, Oral Examination for Doctorates Scheduled

Western News, July 6, 1978, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Orientation is Half Over, Photography Course Offered, International Concert Series Changed, Heavy Rains-Big Snows Related

University Magazine Vol. 4 No. 2, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Magazine (1963-1980)

• Speaking
• It's A New Ballgame For Women's Intercollegiate Athletics
• On Campus
• Periscope On People
• Bronco Sports
• Alumni News
• Distinguished Alumni Awards
• President's Club Assembles
• Foundation Directors Gather
• Estate Planning Ideas
• Class Notes
• In Memoriam

Author Index

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Index to authors in volume 18.

Room For Optimism, Kenneth Vandermeulen

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

A letter from the editor.

Parent Involvement In Children's Reading Readiness Development, Ann E. Klein

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Before the days of community-supported schools, parents were the primary reading teachers of their children. This was, of course, if the parents could read themselves. Once schools became established, parents generally relinquished the responsibility for teaching their children to read to the schools. Despite the fact that today most parents know how to read, too often they take a very inactive role in their children's reading development.

Reading Deficiency And Behavior Problems: A Study, Neil T. Glazer

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Early in the 1973 school year, original research was conducted in a New England public school concerning the relationship between reading deficiency and disciplinary problems. A description of the research design and the results of the project were published in the Journal of the New England Reading Association. Since that time further studies have been conducted using a more sophisticated research plan and an expanded statistical analysis of the results. Even more significant than the continued research in the relationship between reading and behavior is longitudinal aspects of the study; the students that participated in the original 1973 study are …

Factors Affecting The Relationship Between Listening And Reading, Shirley Olejnik

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Although it is important to look at the relationships between all of the language arts, the purpose of this paper is to focus on the relationship between reading and listening. There are several practical reasons for focusing on these perceptive skills. With the myriad of listening/reading materials published today, reading teachers must be ready to evaluate the effectiveness of such materials. In addition, they should be armed with knowledge about the utility of using training in specific and general listening skills as a method of improving reading skills. And, finally, they should have some ideas as to how to incorporate …

Divorce--Reading Style, Nicholas P. Criscuolo

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

What is one of the biggest problems in the teaching of reading today? It is curriculum isolationism which results in treating reading as a separate entity rather than as part of the language arts. Teachers spend vast amounts of time teaching reading skills as outlined in basal readers while virtually ignoring the opportunities for children to listen, speak and write. This divorce creates a sterile reading program whereas a marriage of reading with other communication skills results in an effective and healthy reading program.

Developing Fluency In Word-By-Word Readers, Patrecia A. Ross

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

No abstract available.

Required Preparation In Reading For Secondary Teachers, Walter J. Lamberg

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

In Fall, 1977, a survey was conducted on requirements for secondary teachers in the area of reading instruction. Information from state certifying agencies show a majority of states have some requirements. The results of the survey, when compared to results of two earlier surveys, show increasing interest in secondary reading.

The Role And Function Of Informal Reading Evaluation, Donald C. Cushenbery

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Many persons have developed the understanding that the evaluation of a given student's reading ability must take the form of the administration of a commerical, standardized reading test. Though the results of a standardized test can be valuable, secondary teachers need to develop an evaluation model which encompasses a number of factors. These aspects would include commercial tests, informal techniques, observational devices, and the study of past reading performance data accrued by a reader.

We Suggest, Eleanor Buelke

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Stauffer, Russell G. (1976). Action Research in L.E.A. Instructional Procedures

Quick Reviews

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

No abstract available.

Teaching Reading To The Hearing-Impaired Child, Judy I. Schwartz

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

The single most serious impediment to successful school achievement in general and to learning to read in particular is the deaf child's impaired language function.

Oral Reading: Considerations Before Utilization, L.D. Briggs

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

One of the most revealing diagnostic devices used in the elementary school is oral reading. By using oral reading the teacher can evaluate the child's ability to respond to punctuation marks, to apply phonics, to recognize basic sight words, to phrase correctly, and to apply other reading skills. The child's strengths and weaknesses can easily be determined through the use of oral reading, and an individual improvement program can be based on an evaluation of reading skills as reflected by oral reading. Without question, oral reading is an essential activity for effective teaching. Oral reading, however, is not an extensively …

Article Index

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Index to articles in volume 18.

Reading Horizons Vol. 18, No. 4

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Complete issue of Reading Horizons volume 18, issue 4.

Classroom And The Cloze Procedure: Interaction In Imagery, Jane W. Meeks, Raymond F. Morgan

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

The paper will give the background research concerning cloze techniques, detail the steps teachers would follow to use Interactive Cloze, report behavioral observations within the classroom setting, and indicate direction for research into the efficacy of this procedure.

A Mini Look At Some Maxi Ideas, Heath Lowry, Barbara Waters

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Time and again I have listened to busy teachers complaining that they don't have time to read the many current articles on IQ, open classrooms, class organization, learning theory, motivation, and use of traditional material which appear in professional literature. Therefore, I would like to consolidate many of these sources into one article which will give the reader some indication of the trends which seem to be taking place concerning these things.

Clearing The Air Of Fog And Smog, Sharon Muir

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

The purpose of a readability formula is to produce a number or number range which approximates the achievement level required of a reader in order to comprehend a written passage. A useful formula, especially to the classroom teacher, is one which is easily computed and which accurately predicts the needed reading ability. Two formulas which have appeared in recent years, the Fog Index and the SMOG Grade, are easily applied. But are they accurate?

False Prerequisites In Learning To Read, Marie Carducci-Bolchazy

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Reading management systems, designed to facilitate planning and monitoring of individualized instruction, are based on the concept of prerequisite skills. For this investigation specific skills from the word-attack component of the Wisconsin Design for Reading Skill Development have been selected in order to investigate whether these skills are indeed prerequisite skills for competence in reading. If these skills are prerequisite skills, one should not find competent readers who lack them. (It is important to caution, however, that even if competent readers have certain skills, these skills are not necessarily prerequisite to reading competence. It is possible that competent readers acquired …

An Inventory For Assessment Of Oral Language Production, Joyce M. Hamrick

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

In terms of specific behavior, reading achievement and subsequent learnings are determined by the effect of a language pattern influenced by appropriate or inappropriate cognitive thought.

Two Perspectives On Organizationally-Inspired Barriers To Innovation In Schools Of Social Work: Short And Long Term Strategies To Promote National Minority Group Representation, R. Louis Mcneely, John Oliver

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

This paper focuses on conditions conceived to militate against innovation and change in organizations adhering to administrative principles found often in many workplaces. While these principles are not peculiar to schools of social work, these schools are singled out along with two related problems identified often by persons employed in these schools as ones for which few effective innovations have been implemented. These problems center upon how these schools may best achieve an adequate representation among faculty members, of minority group staff, and an adequate representation of substantive course offerings focusing upon the experiences of national minority group members. The …

Some Critical Questions In The Political Economy Of Social Welfare - The Carter "Welfare Reform" Proposals, L. K. Northwood

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The purpose of this paper is to discuss President Carter's welfare reform proposals, appropriately titled, "The Program for Better Jobs and Income." If these proposals are adopted by Congress, they will guide the Administration in its stance toward and its work with the lowest income sectors of the nation: the welfare poor--those who cannot work and must be supported by the government, and the working poor--those who are able to support themselves, but whose yearly income is less than the poverty level.

Consequently, the paper starts with an analysis of what the government documents have to tell us about the …

Journal Of Sociology & Social Welfare Vol. 5, No. 4 (July 1978)

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Introduction - ii
• Systems Theory - ROBERT D. LEIGHNINGER, JR - 446
• Interactionist Theory, Human Behavior, Social Work Social Work Education - RALPH SEGALMAN - 467
• Structural Functional Theory, Social Work Practice and Education - JOE HUDSON - 481
• Conflict Theories and Social Work Education - NORMAN N. GOROFF - 498
• Two Perspectives on Organizationally-Inspired Barriers to Innovation in Schools of Social Work: Short and Long Term Strategies to Promote National Minority Group Representation - ROGER MC NEELY, JOHN OLIVER - 508
• The Perpetuation of Institutional Racism Through Ethnic and Racial Minority Content in the Curriculum of …

Conflict Theories And Social Work Education, Norman N. Goroff

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

How one defines the world has consequences for one's actions in the world. Sociology has attempted to utilize the scientific method to help human beings understand their social world. However, in the process of its development, sociology has reflected the ideological bias of its practitioners. (Mills, 1943). Irving Zeitlin (1968, pp. vii) claims "Much of classical sociology arose within the context of a debate - first with eighteenth-century thought of the Enlightenment, and later with its true heir of the nineteenth century, Karl Marx."

The central theme of this paper is that social work education makes extensive use of conflict …